On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 03:06 +0100, Jon Povey wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > Could someone please tell me if there is a better, smaller, > > easier to cross compile, and secure web server that you would > > recommend? > > http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ looks promising at a glance. > I haven't tried it, but it's small and uses GNU configure so may > not be painful to cross-compile. > > I'd be interested to know your results - I may need to do something > similar soon. > > As for security.. always a crapshoot. > Perhaps you gain a little security through obscurity not using Apache.
Depending on what you need the web server to do, here's a few more options: 1. lighttpd http://www.lighttpd.net/ 2. uhttpd https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/uhttpd?rev=20573 3. publicfile http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html lighttpd is the most advanced of the three, but it has fewer bells and whistles than apache. uhttpd is part of OpenWrt and is designed to run on systems with few resources. As such, it is single-threaded so you can't overwhelm the resources of the host. This may or may not be desirable for you. publicfile is quite secure, but it doesn't do much. It also uses "the djb way" of thinking, so it's a bit different. Not bad, but different. What are you looking to do with the web server? Just serve up static files or something more dynamic? Best Regards, Mark Deneen Saucon Technologies _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
